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I believe that's illegal, and doing so en masse is going to spark Congressional hearings.

Corporations have perfected layoffs done in such a trickle or way as to prevent triggering the WARN act and other legislation. It's sick but just a fact of life. See also how they've perfected dodging taxes in offshore shell companies (and blow off criticism with the line 'we are just following the laws as written').

And I'm supposed to feel bad when raising corporate tax rates are discussed.

Sometimes, I'm quite the fan of China taking its executives out and executing them for breaking the law.

It is 100% illegal, but Disney got away with it so other big firms are following suit.

I could've sworn they had to walk that back: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-disney-technology-h1b-...

They only "walked it back" enough to squash the bad PR they were getting. Once the headlines went away they went forward with their plan after all:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/26/us/lawsuit-claims-disney-c...

These were two separate instances of layoffs. The grandparent link is not related to yours (except that both stories involve Disney, and both involve layoffs).

Disney initially 'got away with it' because they kept the whole thing at an arms length by outsourcing to Cognizant. "Oh that's what you did, hire H1B? Yeah that wasn't us... We just outsourced to Cognizant so you should ask them about what's going on".

Super shady, but it was a fleeting attempt at plausible deniability on behalf of Disney execs.

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